Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > Can we add "pid" argument to be able to search next fd in other task?
> > Together with sys_kcmp() this will be very useful for checkpoint/restore.
>
> That would raise all sorts of security questions unless protected, plus
> its got races. If you want to do that and you have the rights you can do
> it via procfs anyway.

Don't worry, I just asked. =) Seems like crtools dumps fd in the target-task context,
so the current version is suitable.
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